The threat of reversal.

Even a hugely successful privatisation of education or medicine or even banking is at jeopardy from the statist mindset.

America used to have a very free market. In the late 19th century, schooling was not compulsory and it was not funded by the state, yet over 96% of children were enrolled in schools.

But the statists are always searching for a crisis, looking for the safety of government guarantees and plans, and highlighting new problems where none used to exist.. for example we are supposed to believe that inequality of outcome is now a huge problem.

Look at the internet.. a new innovation and purely successful discovery, produced by the free market, yet the state encroaches and moves in on it.

An anarcho capitalist utopia is never going to last if the education system teaches socialist claptrap.

Keynes, Marx and Engels need to be ridiculed and humiliated.

Those who have read me for a while have seen that I’ve transitioned a lot over the last few years.

I think you and I have basically taken the same path. (Aside from the fact that live in sunny Cali and have a beautiful wife, of course) :-)

The more time we spend working completely outside of the State, the less reason we have to keep it alive at all.

Are you essentially talking about agorism or do you draw a distinction?

Do you read NoThirdSolution.com? Smart guy. Talks about agorism a lot. He’s been steadily pulling me in that direction.

Various An-Cap and libertarian minded folks are attempting to find freedom on new frontiers — i.e. the FSP or Seasteading. But short of realizing those fantastic dreams, I think the most viable solution is to find more freedom by creating frontiers in technology via encryption and taking more and more of the important aspects of life outside the purveyance of government.

For more discussion on this, see Freedom is found at the Frontier.